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Richard Farmer is not impressed by menu jokes and other misogyny. Plus other political views noted along the way.

Remember Greece? We’ve heard a lot about Cyprus in recent times, but Greece is still a basket case and going from bad to worse.

PolitiFact Australia’s launch has been marred by controversy over one of the site’s first rulings. Was Labor wrong to say penalty rights can’t be “stripped away”?

Former WA bureau chief of The Australian Tony Barrass reflects on his time in jail for protecting his sources, as five of his colleagues are facing the same fate.

The American newspaper industry is in crisis. But the peak industry body has a novel way of putting a positive spin on the dire numbers — it stopped reporting them.

Court proceedings to wind up the publisher of some of Australia’s most iconic gay and lesbian publications have begun, write Matthew Knott and Miles Heffernan.

There’s no escaping the leadership focus of the print media: it’s one of the few remaining ways it can engage consumer interest. There was a flood of it in Fairfax papers today.

Coverage of real estate is dreadful, says property writer Terry Ryder. Organisations with vested interests pump out propaganda press releases and so-called journalists recycle them. No questions asked.

From the sublime to the ridiculous, Crikey hands out awards for the best and worst journalism in a year which brought us various media reviews, the usual fare from The Australian … and a very high-profile prank call.

What began as a smear campaign against the Prime Minister became a major media story only a few days ago, when it stopped being merely a News Ltd smear campaign.

So many new voices, so little real journalism — a breeding ground for corruption and failed politics. Gideon Haigh asks who will prevail, in the final chapter of his investigative special for Crikey on the future of the media.

The Australian Financial Review is now a paper for business, rather than about business. The consequences are becoming obvious, write Crikey’s Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer.

Not merely did The Australian Financial Review ad woes continue over the weekend, it found itself scooped on its key area of coverage, write Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane.

The pace of news delivery increases as our attention spans decrease. But are we better informed? Gideon Haigh reports in the fifth chapter of his investigative special for Crikey on the future of the media.

Social media will enhance or destroy the journalism model, depending on who you believe. Gideon Haigh on Twitter, Facebook and measuring news in the third chapter of his investigative special for Crikey on the future of the media.

You too can demolish “independent reports” with this handy guide to the scams used by the consultants and PR agencies who write them (the media isn’t very good at it).

A study published in the Natural Hazards journal (behind a paywall unfortunately) has identified 23 nuclear power plants with 74 reactors as being in high risk areas for being struck by tsunamis.